character是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 性格， 品质， 特性； 人物， 角色； 字符， (汉) 字，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He handed her the Australian and New Zealand Gazette they had bought in Seymour, and added that a reward had been offered by the police for the apprehension of Ben Joyce, a redoubtable bandit, who had become a noted character during the last eighteen months, for doing deeds of villainy and crime.
-- He was of a deeply religious turn of mind, and never lost his trust in Providence nor his belief in the sacred character of his enterprise.
-- I therefore let it go to Melbourne, and joined myself to you in my true character as quartermaster, offering to guide you to the scene of the shipwreck, fictitiously placed by me on the east coast of Australia.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though Sir Charles had resided at Basker-ville Hall for a comparatively short period his amiability of character and extreme generosity had won the affection and respect of all who had been brought into contact with him.
-- One fact which has not been explained is the statement of Bar-rymore that his master's footprints altered their character from the time that he passed the moor-gate, and that he ap-peared from thence onward to have been walking upon his toes.
-- 'It has certainly a character of its own.
-- The work to a man of my temperament was mechanical and uninteresting, but the privilege of living with youth, of helping to mould those young minds, and of impressing them with one's own character and ideals, was very dear to me.
-- There was no trace, how-ever, of anything of the kind, nor could I discover any sign which might indicate the character or intentions of the man who lived in this singular place, save that he must be of Spar-tan habits and cared little for the comforts of life.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This sort of character is met with pretty frequently in a certain class.
-- Look at the well-rounded a and d. I have tried to translate the French character into the Russian lettersa dif-ficult thing to do, but I think I have succeeded fairly.
-- Her character was absolutely changed.
-- General Epanchin took up his part and spoke in the character of father of a family; he spoke sensibly, and with-out wasting words over any attempt at sentimentality, he merely recorded his full admission of her right to be the arbiter of Totski's destiny at this moment.
-- My God!What might not have been made of such a character combined with such beauty!Yet in spite of all efforts in spite of all education, even all those gifts are wasted!She is an uncut diamond....
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed that grotesque ugliness was an invariable character of these is-landers.
-- In the next, we had you drugged last night, had we wanted to work you any mischief; and in the next, now your first panic is over and you can think a little, is Montgomery here quite up to the character you give him?
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The imbecility of her military leaders abroad, and the fatal want of energy in her councils at home, had lowered the character of Great Britain from the proud elevation on which it had been placed by the talents and enterprise of her former warriors and statesmen.
-- The terrific character of their merciless enemies increased im-measurably the natural horrors of warfare.
-- After simpering in a small way, like one whose modesty prohib-ited a more open expression of his admiration of a witticism that was perfectly unintelligible to his hearers, he contin-ued, 'It is not prudent for any one of my profession to be too familiar with those he has to instruct; for which reason I follow not the line of the army; besides which, I conclude that a gentleman of your character has the best judgment in matters of wayfaring; I have, therefore, decided to join company, in order that the ride may be made agreeable, and partake of social communion.'
-- 'Enough of this,' said Heyward, impatiently; 'I wish not to inquire into the character of a man that I know, and to whom you must be a stranger.
-- Thence he went to the side of the motherly animal, and spending a minute in a fruitless inquiry into the character of her rider, he shook his head and returned to Heyward.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country.
-- Under cover of his character of sing-ing-master, he made frequent visits at the farmhouse; not that he had anything to apprehend from the meddlesome interference of parents, which is so often a stumbling-block in the path of lovers.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not strange, then, that those who wrote of him should have eked out their scanty recollections with a lively fancy, and it is evident that there was enough in the little that was known of him to give opportunity to the romantic scribe; there was much in his life which was strange and terrible, in his character something outrageous, and in his fate not a little that was pathetic.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here was a boy that was respectable and well brung up; and had a character to lose; and folks at home that had characters; and he was bright and not leather-headed; and knowing and not ignorant; and not mean, but kind; and yet here he was, without any more pride, or rightness, or feel- ing, than to stoop to this business, and make him-self a shame, and his family a shame, before everybody.
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